| From: | Allan Engelhardt <allane(at)cybaea(dot)com> |
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| To: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Still wondering about random numbers... |
| Date: | 2001-08-08 19:13:24 |
| Message-ID: | 3B718F54.13B5FE8A@cybaea.com |
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Doug McNaught wrote:
> Allan Engelhardt <allane(at)cybaea(dot)com> writes:
>
> > "/dev/urandom is not really better than rand(3) or random(3) *in
> > this situation* [i.e. when reads from /dev/random stalls and there
> > is no system entropy]"
>
> I would still disagree. The difference for crypto purposes between a
> CRNG seeded with real entropy (/dev/urandom) and an LCG (libc
> functions) is huge. The former is useful (with caveats); the latter
> is trivially breakable.
Fair comment. I agree. Thanks for the clarification.
Allan.
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